SQL Injection in Contest Gallery

CVE-2021-24915

The Contest Gallery WordPress plugin before 13.1.0.6 does not have capability checks and does not sanitise or escape the cg-search-user-name-original parameter before using it in a SQL statement when exporting users from a gallery, which could allow unauthenticated to perform SQL injections attacks, as well as get the list of all users registered on the blog, including their username and email address

Vulnerability class: SQL Injection

EPSS: 0.127 (95.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

  • Contest_gallery
  • Unknown Contest Gallery – Photo Plugin For Wordpress — versions 13.1.0.6

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-24915?
CVE-2021-24915 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Contest Gallery, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2021-11-29.
How severe is CVE-2021-24915?
Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2021-24915 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.